Bruce_65

Sorry to go back to the original topic here, but beyond all of the other advice here.
If you are complaining about having to eat the cheap food, stop buying the alcohol and spend that cash to buy better quality food. It doesn't have to cost a lot to eat good, it takes thought and will power to make good decisions, like not buying bad things like Cereal and alcohol.

Sorry to go back to the original topic here, but beyond all of the other advice here.
If you are complaining about having to eat the cheap food, stop buying the alcohol and spend that cash to buy better quality food. It doesn't have to cost a lot to eat good, it takes thought and will power to make good decisions, like not buying bad things like Cereal and alcohol.

Sorry to go back to the original topic here, but beyond all of the other advice here.
If you are complaining about having to eat the cheap food, stop buying the alcohol and spend that cash to buy better quality food. It doesn't have to cost a lot to eat good, it takes thought and will power to make good decisions, like not buying bad things like Cereal and alcohol.

Sorry to go back to the original topic here, but beyond all of the other advice here.
If you are complaining about having to eat the cheap food, stop buying the alcohol and spend that cash to buy better quality food. It doesn't have to cost a lot to eat good, it takes thought and will power to make good decisions, like not buying bad things like Cereal and alcohol.

Yeah, now she just uses french fries to transport the chocolate shake to her mouth. No straw required.

OK...I have just read every post on this topic and as usual I have learned a lot. I am only 2 weeks & 3 days out from my surgery however, when I get to a point that I feel comfortable with it I am sooooo havin' beer, McFnDonald's French fries, a piece of pizza, a cheeseburger, cheese sticks, chocolate something, coke zero with a straw, lasagna, and a piece of red velvet cake, maybe not on the same day but I'm having it all eventually! Till then I'm just gonna sip my Water and shut up!

Mine is mostly a desk job, surgery on Thursday, felt ready to go back Monday, but took the 1st week off and went back 1/2 days the 2nd week. At home I was on the computer doing my own things and walking starting the Saturday after surgery. Your mileage will vary.

Why, well I yo-yo'ed for years, and could loose the 1st half but never the 2nd half, with this tool I feel my odds of loosing all of it are much more likely. A year a go I would have said no way, 6 months ago I would have said hmmm. The seminar was a way to placate somebody else, well at least that is what I thought. I met an excellent surgeon and critical mass of others who had done WLS must have been met because I committed to it after that seminar, for the purpose of having a better 2nd half of life.

As a born citizen I know we have had individuals at my work go to passport offices around the country, Chicago for the mid west and they were able to expedite a passport in a day by paying extra fees. My last experience with this was like 5 years ago so I don't know if it's still possible.
You need to go the state department web site read down to the bottom of the page where it says if you need your documents withing 4 weeks and go from there.
Good Luck

Um, all fat girls have pretty faces.

As a born citizen I know we have had individuals at my work go to passport offices around the country, Chicago for the mid west and they were able to expedite a passport in a day by paying extra fees. My last experience with this was like 5 years ago so I don't know if it's still possible.
You need to go the state department web site read down to the bottom of the page where it says if you need your documents withing 4 weeks and go from there.
Good Luck

You need to try some different shakes, have you tried nu-way available at wal-mart ? they might not be great but they are 42 gm of Protein in 3.5 ounces, if it doesn't seem right, mix it 50 / 50 with cold Water and add some ice. Isopure premixed is also a good one. When it doesn't taste right, change it up. I'm 2 weeks post op, and am doing a GNC powder mix now, it's much better when I add ice to it after mixing, it sips much better.

I've requested 2 weeks and 2 days. My surgery if on a Thursday so I just added the 2 days. I figured I'd need the time to get used to eating that way more than the recovery but I guess I won't know till I get there.

I went back and forth with the though of to do or not for several weeks, The though that has stuck with me and let me convince myself was, are you ready ? I can yo-yo up and down and only ever loose about 1/2 of what I need to be be considered healthy. A sleeve will enable me to loose that 2nd 1/2 that has always been elusive. The first 1/2 has never been "easy" but the 2nd 1/2 has always been impossible, that is not the case going forward.

I went back and forth with the though of to do or not for several weeks, The though that has stuck with me and let me convince myself was, are you ready ? I can yo-yo up and down and only ever loose about 1/2 of what I need to be be considered healthy. A sleeve will enable me to loose that 2nd 1/2 that has always been elusive. The first 1/2 has never been "easy" but the 2nd 1/2 has always been impossible, that is not the case going forward.

How's it going for everybody sleeved on the 29th ?
Just had my 2 week post op followup, lucky me I can go back to work full time on Monday.
Side effects noticed:
- Have to tighten the belt another notch :-)
- Some clothes are starting to feel a little big :-)
- Walking a lot more than I have in the past 20 years
- Little bit of re-flux that I never had before
- Little bit of tingling in the leg and arm, likely because I was readied for surgery and then waited and waited and waited I'm told, should work it's way out
- A slip of diet coke tastes horrible, 2 more weeks of puree'ed food

Back on January 9th, a group of Pekin , Illinois bikers were riding west on I-74
when they saw a girl about to jump off the Murray Baker Bridge .
So they stopped.
George, their leader, a big burly man of 53, gets off his Harley, walks
through a group of gawkers, past the State Trooper who was
trying to talk her down off the railing, and says,
"Hey Baby.....whatcha doin' up there on that railin'?"
She says tearfully, "I'm going to commit suicide!!"
While he didn't want to appear "sensitive," George also didn't want
to miss this "be-a-legend" opportunity either so he asked …
"Well, before you jump, Honey-Babe...why don't you give ole George here your best last kiss?"
So, with no hesitation at all, she leaned back over the railing
and did just that … and it was a long, deep, lingering kiss
followed immediately by another even better one.
After they breathlessly finished, George gets a big thumbs-up approval
from his biker-buddies, the onlookers and even the
State Trooper and then says,
"Wow! That was the best kiss I have ever had, Honey!
That's a real talent you're wasting, Sugar Shorts. You could be
famous if you rode with me. Why the hell are you committing suicide?"
"My parents don't like me dressing up like a girl."
It's still unclear whether she jumped or was pushed.

Don't know that I'll make 100 miles this month, but it's a great activity, 10.75 miles in the first week after surgery. Back to work on Monday

Don't know that I'll make 100 miles this month, but it's a great activity, 10.75 miles in the first week after surgery. Back to work on Monday

Don't know that I'll make 100 miles this month, but it's a great activity, 10.75 miles in the first week after surgery. Back to work on Monday

Don't know that I'll make 100 miles this month, but it's a great activity, 10.75 miles in the first week after surgery. Back to work on Monday

I'm in, it's surgery + 5 days using MapMyFitness, one of the tools that my work Vitality program partners with, works well with my Android phone when I remember to turn the GPS on.
1.5 miles down, better get the walk in for today

I'm in, it's surgery + 5 days using MapMyFitness, one of the tools that my work Vitality program partners with, works well with my Android phone when I remember to turn the GPS on.
1.5 miles down, better get the walk in for today